To help you feel better about your age

[F350CCFX4]

Here you go. Radio History of The Shadow Make sure your hearing aid is turned on/up.

We use to use those cats logging, remember changing the oil on them as they were running. 1956 would of been an new model.

 

[F350DRW1]

Big Joe, that was later on... Before tv, we had Mystery Theater, Amos& Andy all on radio. For years my grandmother would wash her clothes in a big metal barrel and scrub them on a scrub board..way before she got her first electric washing machine complete with wringers. For you youngins, a scrub board is a metal board with ripples on it and the ladies would rub the clothes up and down the board until clean... All by "HAND"...The board was placed in the tub of water to rinse after cleaning.
Now days, people think they have it tough if their batteries run low.

Of course my grandmother who came from Kansas to California in a covered wagon, said we all had it easy growing up, and compared to her, yes we did.

Lets not forget the stationary engines used to power washing machines before they went electric. Stationary engines were a big part of our past.

 

[no-red 6 0]

holy crap... thanks for the history lesson.. i need to get out more often..

now i know mork was from ork

i cant seem to find fantasy island on map

i did not know what a pony engine was or how to start one

i can swim - but sink better..never thought of sharks tho

I WAS THE REMOTE

we actually HAD snow back then

our first vcr cost as much as a truck payment

seen the tubs, but never actually watched grandparents DO the laundry

when i was young, we actually wore our pants around our waist not around our knee caps

and to go along w/ that one, if anyone ever showed their underwear, you dang near got whipped..

 

[BamaSixGun]

Man fellas, just how old are some or you?

Were any of you around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth?


J/K fellas. My Dad (my hero) just turned 74 this past Monday.
I have learned alot from him and love to hear about the old days.

When he was a kid, they would put there cold stuff in a creek to keep it cold.



















































No old people were harmed in the making of this post

 

[F350DRW1]

Creek for beer works. So does a toilet tank. Particularly on varsity wrestling trips for away meets.

 

[BIG JOE]

Lets not forget the stationary engines used to power washing machines before they went electric. Stationary engines were a big part of our past.

Don't git me started on that

Lived on a Farm in Iowa.. Gramma had a One Lung'r, on a waggon... Ran everything with it. Washing Machine, Milk Separator, Well pump (if there was no wind for the wind mill) if the cistern was low. All Gramps's shop machinery. Other stuff too.

NO ONE touched that thing either, even Gramps. 'member her say'n.. If ya don't know what yer do'in.... Keep yer Pea Pickers Off My Engume !! (she called it Engume)

Be 64 this Fall. Would'nt Change ONE DAMN minute of it either.

 

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Old Iron..............

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[BIG JOE]

Old Iron..............

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Dang T.. that second one in, on the left, looks dang near like the one my Gramma had. Cept' hers had bigger wheels, as I remember.

WELL, I waz 4/5 years old...... them wheels might have been BIG.. to Me

 

[F350CCFX4]

Would take a .01 for every bail of hay I put up with an old B like that. My uncle still has the 1hp JD engine we used to run the irrigation pump. Looks a lot like that one on the left.

 

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Old Iron..............

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Some nice iron.